If you’re attending one conference this year, you should be in Oslo on the 17th through 19th of June, at the NDC 2009. The line-up is fantastic and I’ll challenge anyone to show me a development conference with a better speaker line-up.

Mary Poppendieck, Mike Cohn, Scott Hanselman, Michael Feathers, Robert C. Martin (uncle Bob), Ted Neward and many more. And there’s even more on the way. This is the A-Team of speakers!

If you’re not a full time developer, but work more as a project manager, check out the last day, the Norwegian Agile Day, a whole day dedicated to sessions on agile software development, with, amongst others, Mary Poppendieck, an authority in lean development and Mike Cohn, the founder of both the Agile Alliance and the Scrum Alliance.

It doesn’t matter where you’re from, this is the conference to attend!

Don’t miss it!

Hvis du har lyst til å lage Silverlight 2 applikasjoner i Visual Studio så kan du laste ned Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008. Den inneholder Silverlight 2 Beta 1, SDK og tillegg til Visual Studio.

Sjekk også Scott Guthrie sin gjennomgang av en Silverlight 2 applikasjon og Silverlight 2 med Expression Blend.

In order to install the SQL 2005 Express edition with Reporting Services you have to have IIS properly installed. It's not enough to just install it and be happy about it, you'll have to enable some services for it to.

Otherwise you'll get a warning in the System Configuration Checker of the SQL setup: "Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) is either not installed or is disabled."

 KB920201 has the details on what you have to install. And don't forget to use the SP2 version of SQL Server.

I have a GridView with a BoundField containing a DateTime value, but instead of "01.07.2006 00:00:00" I wanted it to display "June, 2007". Easily fixed with a DataFormatString="{0:MMMM, yyyy}", right? Not so... It refused to apply the format string. Luckily, Google came to the resque again, Raj Kaimal had the same problem and solved it.

Turns out that the field value is HTML encoded before the format string is applied. Add a HtmlEncode="False" to the BoundField and the problem is solved. Thanks Raj!